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The hard pill to swallow out of the RFI is contained in the summary for what they are looking for but what they will do with it. So why bother if they are doing nothing with it?

Seems to me that they have asked for an awful lot of paper from those that can and will do submit something to contribute to the SEV.
Has Nasa forgot to think for themself? Or are they just looking for fresh ideas?

Darpa seems to dabble in a lot of cutting edge technologies and projects.
Can anyone say beam me up scotty.

U.S. Air Force Takes a Look at Teleportation

What I find interesting is to which states Kerry had won mostly the industrial north and the pacific coast all of which experienced high job loses under Bushes term of office but not due, I believe directly because of any legislation that he passed. Another interesting fact about those states happens to be that they where won by very small margins a mear 2%.

I think that this photo shows the most direct water evidence.
Notice the waves in the soil.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....M1.HTML

Speaks for it's self.
NASA ISS Near-term Assembly Sequence Nov 1 2004

http://images.spaceref.com/news/2004/11 … le.lrg.jpg

Also on the side of those in congress that are for space, Space: No Big Changes in Congress
So far the space landscape in Congress has changed little. Of all the key players, only Rep. Nick Lampson (D-TX) has lost a reelection bid.

Most major space backers in Congress win reelection

Members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who hold key positions on space-related committees won reelection Tuesday night, with the exception of one Texas Congressman. Rep. Nick Lampson (D-TX), the ranking minority member of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee, lost his reelection bid, in part because of a controversial redistricting of the state's Congressional districts. Other members of the House who lead key committees did win reelection, including House Science Committee chairman Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), ranking minority member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN), and space subcommittee chairman Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), who is expected by many to take over the space subcommittee, also won reelection. In the Senate several key members won reelection, including Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), chair of the space committee of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), ranking minority member of the VA-HUD-independent agencies subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Republican Party maintained control of both houses of Congress, slightly increasing their margin over the Democrats.
Related Links:
Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise article about Calvert
http://www.pe.com/localne....51.html
Election coverage from spacepolitics.com
http://www.spacepolitics.com/archives/2004_11.html

It would appear that the russian space agency is about to allow other space corporations to get into the game and this is a good thing not only for russia but also the rest of the world.
Russia may have private aerospace companies – Perminov

Here is a reference article on the shell game that the large aerospace companies play.

Sundstrand gets role in NASA project

Part of the reusability question is the turn around time, what items are either out right replaced, work staff size to get the job done and a limit to what is the over all cost of refurbishment. I feel that the cost to build the new ship divided by the number of either flights or years is the base line for the refurbishment cost if we are in excess of that then what are the factors that are causing the increase that must be looked at. If a way can be found to make a minimum piece tps shield that would help. The fewer custom shaped pieces is another way to reduce cost. Then you can look at reusing the guts of the ship to be put into a new can option as a means to control new build cost replacements as well.

I know that I had created the topic of can it do all for the moon or mars lander. My concept was simular to the lockheed and the russian klipper designs.

what you may have seen was from the CEV Fact Sheet but also on the same page for that link you will find the The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) thou the cover sheet labels is for OSP. Many other items can also be found on this page as well http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms....&sc=400

I think this was about the same time as the solar flare that crippled the japanese probe to mars. I sort of was discused under the Can Mars say terraformed? thread as for why the atmosphere of mars not being retained due to mars lower gravity levels and chances for such fearsome storms to have occured in the past. That storm if I recall even punched a hole into our planets protective field.

So how much of a percentage does the military give those same contractors for space capable rockets, specially those that Nasa does use?

Once launched the Swift mission will study the explosive phenomena of gamma ray bursts.

Counting Down To Swift Launch